Trending News: Are You Too Fat To Eat At This Naked Restaurant?

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A restaurant offering naked dining in Tokyo plans to weigh patrons at the door in order to refuse entry to anyone considered overweight.

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Nude restaurants are the next big trend in food.

A clothing optional spot called The Bunyadi, opens tomorrow in London and already has a waiting list of 44,000 customers eager to trade their garb in favor of the bare essentials. It could be a long wait for naked diners hoping to eat at The Bunyadi, since the restaurant only fits 42 people at a time and will only be open for three months.

A naked restaurant that opened last month in Melbourne, Australia, called The Noble Experiment, also invites diners to take off every last stitch of clothing.

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The wait for anyone overweight will be even longer in Tokyo, where a clothing-free restaurant opening next month plans to measure customers at the door for height and weight.

Anyone more than 30 pounds over the average weight for their height, will be refused entry.

On its website, The Amrita warns overweight people not to make a reservation because the fee will not be refunded when they’re turned away.

Unlike the other naked restaurants in London and Melbourne, The Amrita will provide its patrons, who must be between the ages of 18 and 60, with paper underpants.

Speaking to other customers is not allowed and touching other customers is also off limits.

People fit enough to make it past the BMI (Body Mass Index) triage process and through the door, will have to turn over all phones and cameras.

No unscheduled snapshots, thanks.

Staff will wear g-strings or small “undies” and The Amrita will feature male models from Europe and the US in a dance show.

The Bunyadi will also ban phones, along with electric lights.

Seb Lyall, founder of The Bunyadi, explains, “The idea is to experience true liberation.” He adds, “We have worked very hard to design a space where everything patrons interact with is bare and naked.”

There’s no word on how long The Amrita will be open or whether it might eventually consider scaling back its admission process.

It’s fair to say great service during a naked dining experience means servers are more likely to see a nice, uh, tip.

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Ask The Big Question: Should people who dine in the buff have to be buff?

Disrupt Your Feed: Discrimination, even on the basis of body type, is discrimination — and restaurants that offer naked dining shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.

Drop This Fact: The World Health Organization says in 2014 more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight, and 600 million of them were obese.